Working hard can be exhausting, we all know it. The early mornings, the late nights, the cancelled plans, all to focus on getting that bag… it can be a lot at times. But every so often, we get to save up enough money to buy the one thing that we have wanted for a long time, and that makes all the blood, sweat and tears worth it.
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Nothing beats a big splurge to celebrate your hard work, and these celebrities know just how to do it.
Ntando Duma
Ntando Duma works very hard, so it is just fitting that she rewarded her hard work in a big way. Just recently, the actress bought herself a beautiful brand new Mercedes A200 AMG, worth R700K.
Taking to Instagram to share the big news, she wrote that she was grateful to God and to every person who is part of her support system, who has walked with her throughout her journey. She also thanked herself, which is great because many people usually forget to acknowledge all the blood, sweat and tears they have poured out in order to get to where they are.
She also made us all tear up a bit as she took the car home to her family, and shared a video of her Gogo crying and dancing as she received the vehicle. She said she had once promised herself that her Gogo would one day ride in her Mercedes, and it meant a lot for her to finally deliver on that promise. How sweet!
Lasizwe Dambuza
They say show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are, and nothing is as true of this saying as the relationship between
Lasizwe Dambuza and Ntando. And it seems the two besties also have the same taste in gifts, as the comedian had gifted himself something eerily similar to Ntando’s just a few years earlier.
The YouTube sensation copped himself a lovely blue BMW in 2020. And much like parents pick out names for their children, Lasizwe affectionately named his new baby Blue Ivy. Did he get his inspiration from Beyonce? We are unclear on that, but who doesn’t, right?
Vuyo Mse Ngcukana
This may start to sound like an article about celebrities who bought expensive cars, but we promise it isn’t. It just so happens that celebrities like to buy their dream cars as soon as they can afford them, and who can blame them?
Another celebrity who gifted himself big with a car is Vuyo Mse Ngcukana. He copped himself a BMW, so that seems to be a trend too. He shared pictures of the car’s interior on Twitter, but he refrained from sharing what it looks like on the outside.
He also opened up about the struggles that he faced on his journey, sharing that there was a time when he almost lost everything, but his children held him together. There is nothing quite like the pure love of your loved ones to keep you going, and we are glad Vuyo’s driving force pushed him to such great heights.
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King Monada
Taking a break from the cars, we have
King Monada who gifted himself with a mansion to celebrate how far he has come in his career. He built himself a mansion in his home village of Ga-Mokgoloboto in Limpopo. Reports have it that the house apparently cost over R15 Million from start to finish.
But King Monada likes the soft life, so the mansion is not the only big gift he has acquired. He has a fleet of luxury cars (yes, including a Mercedes), and even once flaunted a “private jet” that you can see in the picture he shared on Twitter below.
AKA
From the gifts that left us in awe (and frankly, a bit of jealousy), to the ones that made us laugh (like King Monada’s “private jet”), let’s now have a look at one that is a little unconventional.
Rapper
AKA made headlines when he got himself a gift that many deemed one of the most ridiculous ever – a set of grills. And not just any grills, but diamond-encrusted ones. So now every time he smiles, we can all see that he has a whole lot of money, just in case we were about to forget. Now THAT’S a status symbol.
And although some of us may not understand the logic behind the grills, it certainly communicates exactly what he intended for it to communicate.
Nomcebo Zikode
We promise
Nomcebo Zikode is the last celebrity with a BMW that we are including in this list, because she absolutely deserved to be named too. After all of the controversy that her hit song with
Master KG –
Jerusalema – brought into her life, and all the stress she went through to prove that she is just as much a star deserving of
Jerusalema credit as Master KG, surely she deserved to gift herself as big as she did.
In early 2021, she bought herself a BMW Ballito. She was all smiles as she shared a video of herself driving the car on Instagram, and her fans were just as excited too. We love to see the girlies winning!
Nobody can spend money quite like our ZAlebs do. What do you think? Which of these gifts would you get for yourself if you could afford it?
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